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Professor of Phytopathology | @Kieluni | Crop wild relatives | Evolution of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | Likes ETI and PTI | Editor @PhytopathologyJ

Kiel, Germany
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Remco Stam
6 months
So, this is what happens if you buy a 3D printer for the lab...
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Remco Stam
2 years
I'm looking for two PhD students for two different projects. One on genetic diversity of fungal plant pathogens on crops and one on evolution and diversity of resistance genes in wild tomato. More info here: Please retweet.
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Remco Stam
3 years
I am extremely excited to share that from the 1st of April 2022 I will be starting as full Professor of Phytopathology at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel.
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Remco Stam
4 months
Achievement unlocked! I received news that three different grants are funded in one day! 🥳 if you are looking for a postdoc or PhD position on quantitative disease resistance or pathogen genomics, follow this space! Job adverts will follow in due time.
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Remco Stam
2 years
In other news, our molecular biology labs have been refurbished and the bio-safety and GMO permits have been filed!
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Remco Stam
3 years
I will be looking for a research associate/junior group leader to join my team at @kieluni ! The focus should be plant or pathogen genomics. The formal vacancy and all details are following soon, but if you are interested, feel free to DM or email me for more information.
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Remco Stam
2 years
If all goes well, I'll be looking for a PhD student for a really cool industry-funded project on genetic diversity plant pathogens. Preferred start in the first Q of 2023. Experience with genomics and interest in epidemiology required! Official ad will follow. DM if interested
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Remco Stam
3 years
Please RT: for my new lab in @kieluni I am looking for a postdoc/junior group leader with a focus on genomics of plant-pathogen interactions.
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Remco Stam
5 years
I am looking for a Postoc / PhD student to study adaptation of fungal species to wild tomato populations. Please RT.
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Remco Stam
2 years
Secondary metabolites have long been known to play important roles in plant defence. In our review @LiMarce21 and I highlight major classes and look into the future: Metabolomics in plant pathogen-defence: from single molecules to large scale analysis
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Remco Stam
2 years
Hey #ECFG16 , we're still looking for PhD students for two exciting projects: One looking at assessing genetic diversity of fungi in crop fields. One looking at evolution of resistance genes against C. fulvum in wild plant populations. Plz share!
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Remco Stam
4 years
Phytophtora infestans, the plant destroyer. TUM potato field, not treated with fungicides. Picture1: two weeks ago, Picture 2: two days ago.
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Remco Stam
2 years
We're looking for a PhD student to study the diversity of a major crop pathogen in the field. If you have experience in genomics and/or epidemiological modelling, do apply! For more questions, please DM
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Remco Stam
5 years
Please RT. I am looking for a PhD student to study Genetic diversity of secondary metabolite pathways in wild tomato species. The position can already be filled from the 1st of July! For questions, DM or send me an email.
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Remco Stam
2 years
Open PhD position! RT We know plant pathogens are genetically diverse, but how much diversity is there within single fields? What does that mean for overcoming resistance traits or fungicides and for diagnostics thereof? Want to help find out? Apply!
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Remco Stam
2 years
We're recruiting! PhD students for two very diverse projects. This one is on pathogen genetic diversity.
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2 years
#PlantSciJobs PhD position: Pathogen genetic diversity. @EvoMPMI , @kieluni . Starts: as soon as possible
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Remco Stam
6 months
We proudly present an updated pathogen profile on Alternaria diseases on potato and tomato! From the taxonomy and genetic diversity to defence mechanisms in the host, resistance breeding and crop protection. We got you covered!
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Remco Stam
3 years
Absolutely thrilled to celebrate that @ParvinderKahlon passed his PhD defence on polymorphisms in pathogen defence responses in Solanum chilense today.
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Remco Stam
6 months
New DFG research program at Kiel University on plant adaptations to global change! Many of us will be looking for PhD students and Postdocs soon. Keep an eye out!
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Remco Stam
4 years
We are looking for a PhD student to work on a project investigating genetic diversity of pathogen defence responses in wild tomatoes. The position is part of @SFB_924 and should be filled April 2021 #PhD #WildPlantPathogens More info: DMs are welcome
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Remco Stam
5 months
@klsywd Because a day only has 24 hours and one of those is already spent on this site. 😅
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Remco Stam
1 year
Kiel University is opening the KiTE (Kiel Training for Excellence) postdoc career development programme! Apply now for a MSCA-COFUND postdoc position with one of over 70 potential mentors including myself. More info here: Questions? feel free to DM.
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Remco Stam
2 years
Our wild tomato plants arrived @kieluni ! After a 850 km long overnight journey with @GOExpressLogis from Freising to Kiel, they look magnificient. Now it's time to do some science!
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Remco Stam
3 years
I'm really proud of this new paper. It is the first specimen that I collected myself from wild tomatoes in Chile. "ONT-based draft genome assembly and annotation of Alternaria atra" FYI, it started like this:
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Remco Stam
5 years
Preprints work! I got an email yesterday to tell that thanks to our @biorxivpreprint someone has been able to clone a promoter for her gene of interest & submitted the paper Our preprint has been with reviewers/editors since May.
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Remco Stam
4 years
Good news! I got a small grant awarded to expand our studies and sequencing of Alternaria solani on potato in Europe w/ @NiMetz0 . It might not be covid-19, but fungicide resistant strains are spreading rapidly and useful fungicides are running out!
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Remco Stam
6 years
I'm looking for a PhD student for a population genomics project on pathogens of wild tomato in Peru and Chile! Please RT
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Remco Stam
4 years
Turns out, March 2021 is not that bad. Three papers accepted with minor revisions so far. 😁
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Remco Stam
3 years
Due to covid related issues, I have to re-advertise a PhD position: The project focuses on studying genetic and transcriptomic diversity in elicitor-triggered defence responses in wild tomato spp. Please RT
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Remco Stam
4 years
New preprint! We looked closely at RLP-mediated resistance in a wild tomato species. Higher complexity than expected. Large variation between populations and complete loss of resistance in some regions.
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bioRxiv
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Population studies in the wild tomato species Solanum chilense reveal maintenance and loss of resistance at geographically distinct locations #bioRxiv
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Remco Stam
9 months
We got some support funding for our upcoming conference on Wild Plant Pathosystems, 7-10 July 2024 in Kiel. Hopefully we can launch website and registration soon. Mark you calendar and follow this space!
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Remco Stam
3 years
We phenotyped lots of Solanum chilense populations to determine intraspecific variance in resistance against Phytophthora. #wildplantpathogens You saw the preprint. Here is the final version
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Remco Stam
8 years
New Job, New twitter handle! Happy to say that I am now a PI at the Chair of Phytopathology @TU_Muenchen . :) Evolution of plant pathogens.
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Remco Stam
8 months
I just launched the website! Pre-registration for the Wild Plant Pathosystems confrerence is now open. Please sign up to help us assess interest and plan accordingly. We hope to open up registration and abstract submission by the end of the month.
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Remco Stam
9 months
We got some support funding for our upcoming conference on Wild Plant Pathosystems, 7-10 July 2024 in Kiel. Hopefully we can launch website and registration soon. Mark you calendar and follow this space!
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Remco Stam
4 years
Contact me if you liked my #PlantaePresents seminar and would like to do a postdoc on Solanum chilense and or its pathogens. The call for Marie Curie fellowships is now open and @TUMPostdoc offers great support w/ writing.
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Remco Stam
1 year
If anyone is interested in projects on the intersection between climate change and phytopathology, I would be happy to discuss possible projects. I loved my #AvHpostdoc time and would love to pay it forward by hosting someone.
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Humboldt-Stiftung
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Do you want to work on your own #climate project in Germany 🇩🇪? Are you a #YoungLeader or #Postdoc from a developing or transition country? Then our Climate Protection Fellowship might be right for you. Apply now until 1 February 2024! #ActOnClimate 👉
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Remco Stam
2 years
Hunting wild tomato in the desert!
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Remco Stam
3 years
Our current opinion paper is now out: Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution
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Remco Stam
3 years
What to eat when your paper about the leaf microbiome of Peruvian wild tomatoes is accepted? Well, home made Lomo saltado of course!
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Remco Stam
5 years
This is cool. Every conference should have this. I don't consider myself introvert at all and sometimes I also feel lonely at conferences. Especially when not exact my field. Going alone to a conference can be daunting for everyone.
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Evolution Students
5 years
At #Evol2019 without your lab? Introverted? Don't know anyone? Come network and meet cool grad students and postdocs in the same boat in a low pressure environment. Tomorrow during the first coffee break!
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Remco Stam
3 years
Stam lab retreat 2022. Great project discussions, lots of planning for the move to @kieluni . And a small snowball fight... 😁
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Remco Stam
2 months
Day one of the wild plant Pathosystems conference was absolutely amazing. #wpp #wildplantpathystems Great talks, long breaks for good discussion and feedback and a great boat ride on the Kieler Fjord. I'm so happy to be part of this community.
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Remco Stam
3 years
#OpenScience @protocolsIO Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are often seen as primary defence response in plants @ParvinderKahlon optimized the protocol for chemiluminescence based detection of ROS production in tomato. You can find the final version here:
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Remco Stam
4 years
Thank you all for joining (and staying!) Absolutely amazing to see so many attendees. If you have questions, suggestions, anything, send me a message! #plantaepresents @plantae_org
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Kleine-Vehn Lab
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"After the game is before the game" ( #GermanSaying ) Get ready for our next #PlantaePresents seminars on evolutionary questions with @PlantEvolution and @EvoMPMI -> next Wednesday 15.4. at 4pm (European time) Register @plantae_org :
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Remco Stam
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Please RT. I am looking for a bioinformatics postdoc. Position is to be filled as soon as possible. Working hours and contract times are flexible and work can be done remotely, if you have residency in Germany. Informal inquires through DM are welcome!
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Remco Stam
2 years
We completed our last day of field work. Happy Xmas from the Atacama!
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Remco Stam
4 months
More positive funding news! 🥳
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Remco Stam
5 years
Just uploaded my first Lab Group picture with >2 people. This PI thing is becoming real.
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Remco Stam
5 years
I am proud to say that I will be joining the @PhytopathologyJ editorial board as a Senior Editor. My main focus will the sections genetics and resistance and population biology, so send your awesome papers our way!
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Remco Stam
4 years
Spread the word! We're looking for a postdoc and a PhD student. PD: Population genomics in an industry project PhD Student: Bioinformatics and mol bio for @SFB_924 More info here: PD: PhD:
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Remco Stam
3 months
Last week Severin's paper was accepted and Gonne handed in his MSc thesis and is about to start his PhD! Time to say cheers 🥂 and make an new group picture!
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Remco Stam
1 year
#ICPP2023 If you enjoyed these or other talks on wild plant pathosystems, save the date for the Wild Plant Pathosystems conference that @EvaStukenbrock and I are organising in Kiel next summer.
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Gautam Shirsekar
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#ICPP2023 why do natural pathosystems show resiliency when all the crop pathosystems struggle? How do a host or pathogen battle it out in a geographic mosaic? **attend C2.3.2** (Grand Salon Prestige) by Kevin Murray @PlantEvolution @FrankVogt13
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Remco Stam
7 years
Combined my favourite things today: wild tomatoes and rock climbing!
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Remco Stam
3 years
Für meine deutschen Follower: Zwei Studentinnen in unserem Kurs für Agrarwissenschaften führen eine Umfrage über die Akzeptanz von GVOs und CRISPR durch. Bitte teilnehmen und teilen!
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Remco Stam
3 years
There is still time to apply for a junior group leader (habilitation) position in my new group @kieluni 6 years to develop your own work on plant pathogen genomics or related fields in plant microbe interactions!
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Remco Stam
5 years
Great way to start the weekend. The formatted version of our paper ‘Subsets of NLR genes show differential signatures of adaptation during colonization of new habitats’ is now available online.
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Remco Stam
2 years
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk about my research in a #pub . If you're interested in learning about #wildtomato and #pathogenresistance with limited amount of jargon and loads of beautiful pictures, please have a look:
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Remco Stam
2 years
Pleased that this work by @ParvinderKahlon is now published. In short, we found that early laminarin-triggered defence responses differ dependent on the region of origin for populations of a wild tomato. They depend on different phytohormones!
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Remco Stam
1 year
Comment today: "Since I take your lectures, I am thinking 'Oh interesting' instead of 'Ew', when I see fungi, or mould on plant leaves or fruits" My job is done. 😇
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Remco Stam
5 years
I got a mystery gift in the post today. No clue who sent this, but thanks anyway! The benches in our lab kitchen and social room could do with such a beautiful cushion!
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Remco Stam
7 years
Our Opinion Piece is online: When resistance gene pyramids are not durable—the role of pathogen diversity
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Remco Stam
4 years
It has been on BioRxiv for 7 years, but now the final paper from my PhD is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! A conserved oomycete CRN effector targets tomato TCP14-2 to enhance virulence This has been a hell of a journey. Glad it is out!
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Remco Stam
2 years
I'm very pleased to host my previous supervisor and mentor for a seminar. @HuckelhovenR presents a broad overview of his research on Fusarium head blight. From field experiments with barley to receptor discovery in Arabidopsis.
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Remco Stam
2 years
One in six(!) young academics in Germany suffer from depression or anxiety issues! We need to talk more about mental health and the causes for these issues, like short term contracts and general work stress due to publications and what not.
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Anne Mielke
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Leider wenig überraschend: Jede*r sechste Jungakademiker*in leidet an Depressionen.
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Remco Stam
1 year
I'm so excited to see how lab members are taking leaf infection phenotyping to the next level! 12 simultaneous set-ups in one growth room!
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Remco Stam
3 years
APS, @plantdisease will be organising a workshop on how to best review a manuscript on 5 October 2021. Improve your peer-review experience both as a reviewer and as an author!
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Remco Stam
2 months
The Peer-reviewed version is now online! We successfully used transcriptomics and network analyses to identify regulators of early defence mechanisms of tomato against Alternaria alternata!
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Remco Stam
11 months
New Preprint! We have Alternaria sp. that can infect Heinz 1706 tomato (1117, compatible), but also some that can't (CS046, incompatible). We wanted to know what the regulatory mechanisms is behind this at early time points: 3 hours post infection!
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Remco Stam
8 years
"We did not use that software, because the paper was behind a paywall and the abstract didn't contain a link to the code" is legit, right?
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Remco Stam
7 years
#Istudyevolution of wild tomatoes and their pathogens to understand why nature stays healthy and our crops keep getting infected.
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Remco Stam
4 years
Thanks to @jonathandgjones , @xiaolin422 et al for getting me on board. Analyzing effector and NLR diversity and recombination in this data was super exciting and shows that there is a lot more to discover!
@NaturePlants
Nature Plants
4 years
New Article: "A complex resistance locus in Solanum americanum recognizes a conserved Phytophthora effector" @jonathandgjones State-of-the-art genomic approaches to characterize a novel late blight resistance gene in a wild Solanaceae.
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Remco Stam
2 years
We had our first bbq with my whole* department today! And I learned my department owns a still functional combine harvester from 1974.😅
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Remco Stam
3 years
The PhD position I advertised earlier has been filled. We hope to welcome Chris very soon. The plants are now good to go! 🤗
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Remco Stam
3 years
Look at these beauties. They are already growing for the project. 🤗
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Remco Stam
6 years
For all who missed it: I'm looking for a PhD student for a very exciting project on plant pathogen genomics with sampling in the Andes.
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Remco Stam
6 years
I'm looking for a PhD student for a population genomics project on pathogens of wild tomato in Peru and Chile! Please RT
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Remco Stam
2 years
I'm awake for nearly 24 hours and my luggage is nowhere to be found. But: Hello Perú, I missed you!
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Remco Stam
3 years
Instead of focusing on all the protests against COVID measures and vaccinations, shall we share more images like this: People patiently queueing to get their booster shot in a walk-in pub turned vaccination centre.
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Remco Stam
7 months
Starting today all our lab equipment will be printed in tomato red.
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Remco Stam
1 year
Happy to see this accepted in JXB: Barley shows reduced Fusarium Head Blight under drought and modular expression of differential expressed genes under combined stress
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Remco Stam
5 years
In case you were still wondering whether you should apply, the project just got awarded a price and additional budget, so I am not the only one who thinks it's cool. :-)
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Remco Stam
5 years
I am looking for a Postoc / PhD student to study adaptation of fungal species to wild tomato populations. Please RT.
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Remco Stam
6 years
If R genes are not durable ( ) are S genes better? Our latest S gene review is out.
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Remco Stam
6 years
New perspective w/ @HuckelhovenR and @StefanEngelhar3 : Good Riddance? Breaking Disease Susceptibility in the Era of New Breeding Technologies
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Remco Stam
5 years
Anyone interested in a postdoc with me working on genetic diversity of Solanum chilense and its pathogens, or in fact any other group at the TU Munich, consider applying for TUF fellowships. Questions, send me a message!
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Remco Stam
5 years
After studying NLR evolution in Solanum chilense, we'll be looking into other defense-associated genes, and into the evolution of the pathogens: We collected hundreds of samples on our trip to Peru. The sites were stunning.
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Remco Stam
4 months
The new round of MSCA fellowships has opened. If you are considering applying for a fellowship in phytopathology, get in touch! @kieluni is offering various means of support, incl. workshops in the coming weeks, so don't hesitate!
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Remco Stam
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@stuartsmyth66 Do you have a source? Afaik, it's now also only seen as "emergency solution" only. Also, Copper sulfate is probably more toxic and definitely broader off target than many approved synthesized chemical products. It kinda shows the impossibility or hypocrisy of organic.
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Remco Stam
2 years
Looking for an introduction to the evolution of pathogen resistance genes in plants? Hanna Märkle, @IzzySaur and I wrote a short review article for people new to the field. The preprint is now on-line!
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Remco Stam
10 months
Deleting your ResearchGate account is surprisingly easy!
@ResearchGate
ResearchGate
10 months
We are pleased to announce our new partnership with @MDPIOpenAccess that will see 10 of MDPI’s journals benefit from an enhanced presence on ResearchGate through our innovative Journal Home offering.
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Remco Stam
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Chuffed. I am now also a published scientific writer in the German language. My assay on how GMOs can contribute to sustainable agriculture is published in a book.
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Remco Stam
3 years
Great to see German public television have an item explaining the nonsense behind biodynamic agriculture and ending by saying that green gentech is would actually help solve current agricultural problems.
@maithinkx
MAITHINK X
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Fazit: Unwissenschaftliche Methoden im Öko-Landbau verhindern einen Ausstieg aus der konventionellen Landwirtschaft! Alle Quellen zu dieser Hypothese gibt's wieder hier: . Und mehr Content mit Gütesiegel "Der Shit" auf: #MAITHINKX
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Remco Stam
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Yesterday I delivered my first key note lecture about all things pathogen and resistance on Solanum chilense in the species' home country. Now we're getting ready for day two of the Chilean Phytopathological congres.
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I am looking for a PhD student to study molecular mechanisms of pathogen defence evolution in wild tomato species:
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